All you people with iPods
Jan 28 05 | 4:10 am
Congratulation, you own a $300 MP3 player! Now please go out and buy a decent pair of headphones! I can’t count the number of people I see in school with those dinky little pill shaped earbuds in their ears. Not only are the headphones low quality, they scream, “Mug Me!” This probably isn’t a problem in South Windsor, but if you can afford an expensive MP3 player and enough CDs to fill it up, you can surely afford to drop $20 on a decent pair of Sony headphones.
Sony had this really awesome StreetStyle behind the head pair of headphones, which I own two sets of (albeit different model numbers). But now they’ve switched the design to look cooler but be less functional. Good thing I already own two pairs of the gooder older kind.
Tomorrow is Friday. I need a hobby. I was so bored on the snow day. I’m slipping into TBS games again, I played Alpha Centauri for about 4 hours between today and yesterday. I can’t believe how old the game is, considering how high tech it still seems. It came out in 1999. I remember walking to Orchard Hill thinking about it because I had read about it online. Civ III sucks in comparison, and Civ IV is going to have to be pretty good to compete. Nothing beats Civ II or Alpha Centauri when it comes to replayability. And I’ve never even played multiplayer (because I really suck and can’t do well on higher then a medium difficulty).
man that’s like third grade nostalgia.
Comment by Jds2711 — Jan 28 05 | 5:24 am
How do the headphones scream, “Mug Me?” The only reason I could think of was that if someone has poor quality headphones, then they probably don’t care very much about their iPod either.
Also, I was under the impression that Apple’s earbud headphones were pretty good. I’m told that the sound quality of them is decent. Personally, I don’t really like how earbuds feel, I’d want to get the ones that cover your whole ears.
Comment by cobalt — Jan 28 05 | 1:22 pm
sometimes the ear buds start crackling at high volumes…and greg, i was one of the original iPod owners, i just didn’t flaunt it until now
Comment by Mike — Jan 28 05 | 11:24 pm
You know the ipod owners I really admire? The ones that have a 5 GB 1G…
Comment by Pelan — Jan 28 05 | 11:37 pm
HAHAHAHAH. One of my friends has a 5GB 1st gen. ipod, the one that dosen’t even have a touch wheel - it actually rotates! He wanted a new one for christmas; I never checked back with him to see if he got one or not.
Comment by jmikeviolin01 — Jan 29 05 | 12:16 am
I like big wheel of cheese.
Comment by nikankwon — Jan 29 05 | 12:57 am
Look on eBay, I think you could scoop up a 1st gen for about $40.
The real trick is getting it to run under Windows XP. Most of the utilities to do that are far out of date.
Comment by civman2 — Jan 29 05 | 3:45 am
When my friend came over for a weekend, this past October (His name is Matt; He lives in Florida), we got it working on my computer, through iTunes, in about 5 minutes. And I have XP Pro…wasn’t that hard.
Comment by jmikeviolin01 — Jan 29 05 | 4:27 am
Perhaps Apple released new firmware for the older players.
This intrigues me…
Comment by civman2 — Jan 29 05 | 5:01 am
That could be it…except…while Matt is good with computers, I don’t think he’d be able to do firmware updates on his own, or really care that much about it. All I know is that we plugged it, and with iTunes installed, XP recognized it, installed it, and we were up and running within a few minutes.
Comment by jmikeviolin01 — Jan 29 05 | 7:54 am